Fire safety plans for Port Moody buildings, from the towers of Inlet Centre, Suter Brook and Klahanie to the townhouses of Heritage Woods, prepared to Port Moody Fire Rescue’s own guidelines and approved before final occupancy.

Who needs a fire safety plan in Port Moody

Port Moody Fire Rescue enforces Section 2.8 of the BC Fire Code through the City’s Fire Protection and Emergency Response Bylaw No. 2835, which sets out the fire safety plan requirement and the department’s key management rules. Every building with a fire alarm system, every assembly, care or detention occupancy, every high building and every sprinklered building needs a plan, and for new buildings the plan must be submitted and approved before the final occupancy inspection.

That covers the concrete residential towers and mixed-use retail podiums of Inlet Centre, Suter Brook and Newport Village, the waterfront towers of Klahanie, the low-rise commercial strip and transit-oriented redevelopment along St. Johns Street in Moody Centre, the townhouse stratas and schools of Heritage Woods and Heritage Mountain, and the care homes, daycares and places of worship across the city.

How Port Moody Fire Rescue reviews a plan

Port Moody publishes a full set of documents at its fire safety plan hub: Fire Safety Plan Guidelines with the department’s own drawing symbols, Construction Fire Safety Plan Guidelines, New Construction Requirements, a pre-incident site and floor plan standard, and the plan box specification. Plans are reviewed against them. Drawings use the Port Moody symbol set, the plan goes in a red 8.5 by 11 binder, and the plan box is a specific Knox cabinet mounted beside the annunciator and labelled “Fire Safety Plan”. Alternative solutions longer than about twenty pages are bound separately and kept in the box.

The department uses the fire safety plan to build its own pre-incident plan, so pre-incident site and floor plans are required with every submission as PDFs. A review fee applies to fire safety plans, with a separate per-inspection fee for mid-rise wood-frame construction sites; we confirm the current amounts at submission and include them in your quote.

Construction is closely supervised in Port Moody. A construction fire safety plan must be prepared before construction or demolition begins and updated as the phases change, the department accepts them only from qualified service providers and asks the contractor to contact Fire Prevention before development starts, and it inspects mid-rise wood-frame sites weekly from the third floor until the sprinklers are active. Our construction division at constructionfiresafetyplans.ca prepares and maintains those plans.

The buildings we plan for in Port Moody

Concrete residential towers with retail podiums, parkades and firefighter elevators in Inlet Centre, Suter Brook and Newport Village. Waterfront high-rise towers in Klahanie. Low-rise commercial buildings and the new transit-oriented developments along St. Johns Street in Moody Centre. Townhouse stratas and schools in Heritage Woods and Heritage Mountain. Care homes, daycares, churches and recreation facilities across the city.

Keeping a Port Moody plan current

Review the plan every year and update it whenever the Fire Safety Director, property manager, monitoring company or building systems change. Run the annual drill, keep the records in the plan box, and follow the plan’s alternative measures whenever a fire protection system is out of service.

How it works with FireSafetyPlan.com

1. Firm quote in one business day. One upfront price based on building type and size, with any fire department review fee included.
2. Site visit. We confirm exits, fire alarm panel and annunciator, sprinkler and standpipe connections, shut-offs and the plan box location, and photograph the fire protection systems.
3. Draft in five to seven business days. CAD drawings and the full written plan, sent to you for review before anything is submitted.
4. Submission and approval. We submit to the fire department, handle any revisions they ask for, and deliver the accepted plan in print and PDF, with wall plaques and a plan box if you need them.

Approval is guaranteed. If the fire department sends back a plan we prepared, we revise it at no charge until it is accepted.

Recent Port Moody projects

A couple of the Port Moody buildings we have prepared fire safety plans for, and what made each one different.

• A second-floor daycare in a nine-storey building on Brew Street: infants go down the stairs one at a time, passed along a relay of staff.
• A restaurant and pub in a 1986 commercial building on Ioco Road: no fire alarm and no sprinklers, so the hood system’s bell is the only alarm.

Frequently asked questions — Port Moody

Does Port Moody require a specific plan box?

Yes. The department specifies a Knox cabinet model mounted beside the annunciator and labelled “Fire Safety Plan”, and lock box keys are managed under the City’s bylaw. We supply and locate the box as part of the job if you do not have one.

We are opening a new building. When does the plan need to be in?

Before the final occupancy inspection. The department will not sign off occupancy without an approved fire safety plan, so we schedule the site visit for when the fire protection systems are commissioned and submit in time for review.

Is there a review fee?

Port Moody charges a fee to review a fire safety plan, set in the municipal fee bylaw and changed from time to time. We confirm the current amount at submission and include it in your quote so there are no surprises.

Port Moody fire safety plan quote: (778) 574-2895. We reply within one business day.

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